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KOCO Channel 5 TV morning host says her black co-anchor looks like a 'gorilla' during a news segment
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<blockquote data-quote="Aries" data-source="post: 3265794" data-attributes="member: 44328"><p>Folks, please keep in mind that there are decades of history in this country of people (mostly white) calling/comparing black people to apes, monkeys, gorillas. It used to be much more common, and make no mistake it was intentionally derogatory and racial.</p><p></p><p>I doubt the woman meant it as a racial slur, I think she was teasing her workmate. And I don't doubt that he took it in the best possible way, at least at first, but they have thousands (maybe millions) of viewers who are black, and it is not unreasonable that they may have been offended, given the history of such comments toward blacks. It was, at best, insensitive and she was right to apologize.</p><p></p><p>If you don't care about their feelings, I guess you just don't care. But I don't think that says anything positive about your character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aries, post: 3265794, member: 44328"] Folks, please keep in mind that there are decades of history in this country of people (mostly white) calling/comparing black people to apes, monkeys, gorillas. It used to be much more common, and make no mistake it was intentionally derogatory and racial. I doubt the woman meant it as a racial slur, I think she was teasing her workmate. And I don't doubt that he took it in the best possible way, at least at first, but they have thousands (maybe millions) of viewers who are black, and it is not unreasonable that they may have been offended, given the history of such comments toward blacks. It was, at best, insensitive and she was right to apologize. If you don't care about their feelings, I guess you just don't care. But I don't think that says anything positive about your character. [/QUOTE]
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